Television will not be revolutionizedA Poem by Marie Starr
Previous Version This is a previous version of Television will not be revolutionized. Television will not be revolutionizedYou will be able to stay home, sister
You will be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out In fact, you will be systematically programmed To prioritize your lifestyle around your viewing habits Will be encouraged to become addicted to latest television trend To watch each series to it’s tantalizing end and then Follow the characters who have become your friends to their spin-off time So you can get inside their heads all over again So the corporations that spend billions of dollars getting inside your head Can convince you to go out and buy clothes so you can look like them Can convince you to purchase their products so you can continue to pretend Long after your vicarious relationships with them Have been abandoned for the next big thing Television will not be revolutionized Television will be brought to you by Xeorox In 4 parts with strategically placed commercial interruptions Guaranteed to keep you plastered to your chair Annoyed with your children for imagined disruptions Which are only considered disruptive because you have chosen to stare At a mechanical box instead of at their tumbling towers of blocks At the soft curl of their locks edging eyes brimming with need Television will not be revolutionized Television will be brought to you by Proctor & Gambol, Halliburton And Exxon Mobile, by money stained by the hands of the few rich white men Who own 98% of the stations or the few rich white men who own or Govern 97% of this nation, as well as the hands of the common men Or women prioritizing our lives according to the lies of corporations On an ancient fear bred by thousands of years of enculturation That we are not good enough as we are now, that there is something Outside ourselves we need to make ourselves complete, to fill the hole We have created within; with Eve it was the tree of knowledge Which she ate from and thus created sin, or so the story goes, But what I’m asking is, “Why would a loving God create a garden filled with Beautiful things for their pleasure and then tell them there is a wisdom They do not know, and then tell them this wisdom is forbidden?” Yes, television will not be revolutionized Even if we pay out of pocket to watch it Television will still be commercialized Even if we are aware of the media lies Television will still leave us mesmerized Even if we focus on edu-tainment Television will still be propagandized Television will not show you reality Television will not show you the casualties Television will not show you remnants of Iraqi children Bodies broken and hallowed by our masses of weapons of destruction Eyes glazed and flattened by our humanitarian focus on reconstruction Which happen, again, to line the wallets of those few rich white men Stamped and printed with images with the heads of a few other dead white men Television will not show you the remnants of American children Expelled from their mother’s wombs before their lives even began Sister soldiers returning from fighting for our land, for this abstract concept Of freedom to find themselves barren and branded with mysterious illnesses Not recognized by the military as having anything to do with those Gases used as artillery in the time since we realized invisibility Does not decrease a weapon’s power Television will not be revolutionized Will not be revolutionized Will not be revolutionized Television will not be revolutionized So, unplug … so walk outside and open your eyes The problem with lies is you always gotta be reminding people of them You always gotta be convincing people of them You always gotta remain vigilant and organized And we all have a threshold; all have a limit to how much we can take, How much we believe despite the reality of our own lives And the beauty of it is, when we reach it When we are so exhausted by our divinity of denial we can no longer Swallow… the truth is right there waiting for us … all the time Just waiting for us to open our eyes And recognize © 2008 Marie StarrAuthor's Note
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Added on October 7, 2008AuthorMarie StarrRochester, NYAboutLet's see ... a little bit about me ... I am a writer & artist & photographer & fool. I try to use my fractal focus and obsessive tendencies to illuminate the edges of invisibility. I can usually be f.. more..Writing
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